Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 231, Decatur, Adams County, 30 September 1952 — Page 1

Vol. L. N0?231.

Adlai Hits At Ike's Failure To Talk Issues Scores Republican > Failure To Outline > Position On Issues SPRINGFIELD, 111. (UP)-Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, addressing the nation In & television fireside chat, criticized the Republican, party and Dwight D. Eisenhower Monday night for conducting ah ••emotional” campaign that is “unbearable.’ ! The Democratic presidential nominee flew to Chicago for his closed studio radio and television report to the voters. Defending his-action in presenting key state employes with monetary gifts, Stevenson said.' “I have no grief for the methods I used except that I had no other.’’ But he reserved most of his 30 minutes on the air to a solemn indictment of the GOP and its presidential candidate! “A campaign directed not to 1 men’s minds and Ito their best instincts but to theft* passions, emotions and prejudices is unworthy at best,” he said, “Now with the. fa to of the national stake, it is unbearable. This is no time for such talk.” Stevenson said he had done the -‘'best he could to keep my to talk sense to the American peo-, . pie.” and? that he had hoped Eisenhower ’‘would also state his position on the issues.” “But he has chasen instead to insist that h* and his running imate are the only candidates of sufficient integrity to assure the nation clean government during, next tour years.” \ ? “I think that the object of open-. . ing the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it on something solid,” Stevenson said wryly. Stevenson flew back to. Springfield after the television appearance, arriving early today. He, planned to spend today working on speeches and state business and expected no important callers. , ■ ' continued his running defense of his fund to help reduce the financial sacrifices of . men he recruited from private business to help him run the state of Illinois. Saturday he disclosed that he paid ' a total of V B - I ® o to eight key appointees. , . A “None ever asked me for help,” Stevenson said, “and none could have bden improperly influenced' by these gifts, because I gave them and I appointed them to , their jobs and could have discharged them at any time.” “If it is wrong to give money to people in appointive jobs which could not influence them, then it must be wrong to give money to people running for elective office which could influence them,” the said. “Yet, we give political contributions to candidates every day of |he wepk.” \ Before newsreel Cameras later, Stevenson said, “If tellink you the truth about the world as I see it should cause you to cast me down, and revile me, and with me the Democratic party, I should still tellyou the truth as I see it." “For no office, within your gift, Including the presidency itself, is worth the price of deception and, bringing this nation to the s brlnk of destruction?’ Stevenson said. ' —f —tr~ —r~ — Two Veterans Return From Far East Today Two Adams county soldiers were scheduled to reach San Francisco today aboard the Lt. Raymond Beaudoin, enroute home from service in Korea and the Far East. Included in the returning veterans are Sgt. Samuel J. Yost of Decatur, and Cplj. Peter J. E, Gon? zales of Decatur route 51 ? _ Jacqueline Teeters Dies In Aerial Fall PORTSMOUTH, O. UP — Jacquejine Teeters, who had thrilled thousands of persons with her dances atop a high pole, plunged 137 feet to her death while preparing for her show Monday flight. KnoWn as Jackie Teeteri during her 16 years of. pole dancing, Miss ■: Teeters fell while rehearsing for a' sh|w at a-drive-in theater in Lucas-; ville, 10. miles from here. Miss Teeters thrilled fairgoers at the Decatur free fair this past summen with her aerial act, staged, twice dally throughout the fair. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Wednesday; warmer extreme . northwest tonight. Low to-’ night 54-59. High Wednesday 7 85-90.

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Central Soya Uniqn To Vote Wednesday Members of the United Brewery Workers of America, representing workers at' Central Soya company in -this city, will vote on acceptance or rejection of the company’s wage and? employment offer tomorrow. \ Two meetings of the workers Will be held at. Unioft liall. The first assembly will be at Ijand the second at 4 o’clock. Negotiations have been going on between officers of tha ÜBWA and company officials daring the past ,1<) days. Smith Unable To Understand Furor On Reds I i < Intelligence Head Admits Some Reds In His Department WASHINGTON, UP —Gen. Walter Bedell Smith said today he cannot understand “why | anyone should' get excited” ftbput his statement that there pjrob|ibly aye Some Communists in the; central intelligence agency. i The CIA director, |wh(| unwittingly tossed a bombsllelb|nto the political campaign Monday, Sought to calm the furor by assuming the public • that\ any Red? who may hive infiltrated his agencjr are in nijfior jobs where ,they cahnot do afty “serious harm.” [ ;He emphasized that no nist's actually have been “detected” in the CIA and said thCagency trikes “extreme, eveiE fanatical” precautions to keep them lout. “But I am certain that in this widespread organization there is bound to be Communist penetration 'somewhere along the line,” he said. “I would be silly, foolish, and unworthy of public trus< hfp acted on any other assumptiop.” J The four-star general, former U. 0? ambassador to Russia ahd wartime chief of staff to Gen. [Dwight D. Elsenhower, said he i? “positive” that alt key officials; of the CIA are loyal. And all other employes. he said, are so “compartmentalized” in their work that none of them has access [to anything except “fragmentary” intelligence information. , 111 i Smßh’s explanation failed to placate Republican Who pounced on his original statement as evidence that the Trupian administration has handled its loyalty program with [“incredible looseness.” 1 r ‘GOP national chairnjan I Arthur E Summerfield announced that former Rep. Claire Booth Luce of Connecticut will mak* a I nationwide radio and television broadcast tonight on Smith’s "shocking (Turn To Paste Five) Business Women In Week's Observance Local BPW Club Is Aiding In Program . National business women’s week is being observed Week, September 28' to October 4. The Ideal Business and Professional Women’s club is sponsoring the observance with- the theme, “The Ramparts We Build.” This program of democracy is carried into- every phase ot the club’s program in health and safety, ideation and vocation,; public affairs,' ’international relations, and national security. ’ p Each committee attempts to keep the needs of the Decatur <*bmmunitj\ and opportunities for its improvement before] the , club and the public. Currently Eloise Noll is heading the health and safety project; Mrs. Myle.fi Parrish has charge of education and vocatiqn; Joan Wemhog is chairman Os public affair?; Evelyn Frohnapfel ha? the leadership in international relation*; Grace keeps the group informed' on legislation; and Marjorie Rentz on national security. “The Ramparts We Build” is the concern of the Business and fFp-ofeasional Wpmen’s club and also of every citizen. ‘’All; these ramparts: spiritual, political, military, diplomatic, cultural,; and economic are necessary!, wb cannot le| one fail for th* chain is only qs strong as its weakest link.” 4 ; Mor* than. 160,000 members of the American Business and Professional Women’s clubs ar? united with the more than 40; local members ip this week in Calling the attention of their towns and citi*? to “National Business Women’s Week.” i | .

Whistle Stopping For Stevenson I I i I daughter hold a Stevenson-Sparkman button, and a big sign (lower left) proclaims their preference. ’ .

Ike Leaves On Coast-To-Coast Campaign Trip ' • V ■ ’■ I ]]>’•. i.- '' ■ • S | Four-Wedk Campaign Tour Opens Tonight In South Carolina NEW YORK UP — DvlKht D. Eisenhower, with a stab intb the deep south, opens a gruelling fourweek campaign trip today which will take him from coast to coast in a make-or-break bid for the White House. The kick-off for the Republican presidential candidate copies late today when he speaks from the steps of tjtxe state Capitol Building in Columbia, S. C. Eisenhower’s speech \ will be made qt dthe invitation of South Carolina Gov. James F. who recently broke a lifetime of loyalty to the national Democratic party to announce for Eisenhower. The general begins his last mar jor pre-elect|on swing with the hopes of his aides at an all-time high. The Eisenhower camp is riding high on what it; believes was an ex'tremeiy favorable turn of? events stemming from the\ ruckus raised over the acceptance of a disputed SIB,OOO expense allowance fupd, by Sen. Richard M. Nixon, the general’s running mate. Before th'e trip terminates on Oct. 28, Eisenhower will visit about 27 states in the Midwest and far west. His schedule is being left open for last minute revisions but he will start his 8,000-mile trip with stops in Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, once the South Carolina speaking date is fulfilled. Ei&enhower will fly to join his' special train tonight at Linndale, O-, shortly after completing his speech in Columbia. The Nixon controversy, culminating in the vice presidential nominee’s television — radio report to the natioh has given the Eisenhower camp a feeling that they are on the offensive and —they hope—for good. They think the democratic attack has backfired and made a national figure of Eisenhowers young running- mate. Eisenhower; quickly jicked up a challenge by Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic nominee, to report publicly on his financial affairs, precisely as Stevenson ' did , this weekend. The general sent his aides scurrying to gather financial data covering the past years for a public report anticipated before the weekend. \ L . Press spokesman James C. Hagerty said Monday that it would cover Eisenhower’s “entire financial situation.” But neither Hagerty nor the candidate was ready to state yet whether it would Include the general’s federal tax returns. The feeling here Is that Democrats have been pushing the matter in hopes that they can uncover some undisclosed data concerning. the tax Sgreemept bn Eisenhower’s best-selling book, “Crusade v. in Europe.” j ' But the attitude hereabouts was that the matter is “old hat.” ' XCoxtlaaeS Oa Pa*e Six)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 30, 1952.

Fire [Prevention Demonstration Here Big Demonstration Planned October 9 , A group of fire chiefs pnd Delator Chamber of Com me‘Cb secretary Walter Ford, will . meet Friday to discuss the fire prevention demonstration planned for Octdber 9 here. | The Ov.ent represents a first for Decatur. It is the initial effort to shoW gysat niimbers of people ail at the same time just exactly how fires spread and how they can be prevented. At the meeting; will be, 'besides Ford, Ray Shickley, oecatur General Electric fire chief; Ernest Fort Wayne ; G. E. fire chief; Carl Underwood. Central Soya fire chief; and Cedric Fisher, Decatur city fire c Met. It is expected that at least 7,009 Children will be present from all Decatur and Adams county schools and possibly from surrounding counties. National companies, engaged in fire prevention businesses have pledgedAto take part in the unique demonstrations: Ansel Chemical Co., Marinettis, /Wise.; American La France Fire Apparatus> Co.; and the Mid-West Fire Equipment Co,, who. incidentally, 'were Awarded the contract to I'urnish the city with a brand-new fire truck which it is hoped vriTl be delivered in time to take part in, the demonstrations. \ • The Friday meeting will see the Completion of arrangements and. a ,811® tor the program chosen. Ford thinks the plan is sc noteworthy that he may contact Life tnagazine to seek/ national coverage of the worthy plan. ; / All Aboard Sunken Vessel Are Rescued LISBON, Portugal, UP 4all 74 men aboard the 773-ton Portuguese fishing vessel Joao Costa, which sank in the Atlantic off the Azores a week ago, survived the Tough, seas, it was announced todjay. ■

Collection Os Clothing Thursday Fdr Refugees

The Mty-wide clothing collection, sponsored by the interchurch youth council of Decatur, Will be staged Thursday evening? at 5 o’clock. \ All citizens of Decatur are asked to contribute clothing t> this drive to aid Korean war refugees. W. Guy Brown, superintendent; of the Decatur public schools, stated today that the school) i have r*celved special permission from Wijbur Young, state superintendent of public instruction, to aid in this drive. The state had previouslj ; set the week of Oct. 27-Nov. 1 far th* 11th national children’s cUthing drive, but permission has been granted for the schools to cooperate with, the youth council )f the associated churches of Decatur In Thursday evening’? clty-widt campaign. It has been reported that all hinds of clothing are needed in

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publish Photos Os Atom Shell Cannon 1 . ■ Tremendous Power i- - ” • ■ ■( Frbm Huge Cannon i I -■ ** i • !•• • .j. ♦WASHINGTON. UP — First ofLcia!l photographs were .published today of the huge cannon which the army says can fire: ■ atomic shells accurately—day.\ or night and in any kind of weather —a distance of at least 20 miles, i; The gun, a 75doh ’self-propelled monster capable of speeds of 35 miles ah hour, was developed and perfected by army ordnance at th* Aberdeen. Md., proving ground where it has undergone firing tests. The army has nevef hinted that the pig gup actually has, fired ah atomic, shell, but it says flatly it can and will. The atomic energy commission, in tests last year anq this year in Nevada, has exploded “nuclear devices” of ai caliber small enough to be fired by the new Cannon. I ; The atomic gun’s caliber is 280 mna*. slightly mos e than 11 inched Army secretary Frank C. Pac*j, Jr. has said this about the weapon:' v '' ’ "The newly developed atomic gun can give a ground commahder tremendous firepower at his finger tips and directly under hi? control. “It would be especially effective in defending against attacking ground forces obliged to mass and expose themselves in an assault. T V “Unlike air delivered atomic weapons, the atomic gun can function in all kinds of leather, night or.day. “It is . essentially an artillery] piece, but with immeasurably greater power than any artillery] hitherto' known. ' \ “Carried bn a platform suspended between two engine cabs at’ front and rear, this highly mobile; atcimic weapon can travel' at a“ speed of abopt 35 miles per hour on highways. “Weighing about 75 tons, it can cross bridges which army engineers are already > trained to. build for present h]eavy divisional equipment. J j “ft can travel *ross-country and fit intb a landing ship designed for amphibious Operations. “It can fire with accuracy comparable to conventional artillery> and tests indicate] it is much mor* accurate at long ranges.” ' V ] Not all American weaponeers have agreed with the army’s enthusiastic appraisal of the new gun’s possibilities, nor are members of congress unanimously approving of.it. Some feel develops meat and manufacture of atomic shells for the new gun would constitute an' unwise diversion and dilution pf the country’s atomic firepower.

Korea, for winter, summer and o(,her seasons. It mus| be good used clqthing, not worn put items. [lf possible, it should be well pleiined. Giothing for all ages is: needed. About the only items thatt cannot be shipped ar* hats and high-heel or toeless shoes. Warm blanketjs are urgently needed to aid refugees living in tents, sheds, and tumble-down barracks. It-, will also cost some mon'ey for shipping the clothing to the intejr-denominational relief depot in St. Louh. Mo. Individuals and churches may want to help on this; part of the community relief project. Money received above the cost for shipping th* clothing will be sept for the purchase of food parcels, for hungry' refugees. 4|l garments collected will be shipped .to Korea by the church world service* an interdenominational relief agency. ■ < - 1 ;: ■ • i

Battles Flare Along Entire Korean Front U. N. Troops Storm’ Red Positions In \ Hand-to-Hand Duels SEOUL,: Korea, UP — Fighting flared all along the 155-mile Korean battlefront today. On 1 the western front, United Natlonfc infantrymen charged to the crest of Big Nori mountain and fought hand-to-hand duels with the entrbrifehed Reds for an hour and a half Three vicious Chinese counterattacks tidally] forced the attackers to withdraw, jit on'Big Nori that American plants by mistake bombgd Greek troops Sunday. Vicious fighting also broke out on U.- S.-held Tessie Hill on the westtfnL front. The Communists launched tour separate attacks, but were driven off each time by heavy Allied artillery and mortar tire. A Chinese raiding party similarly madean unsuccessful attack against nearby Bunker Hill. On the east-central front, South Koreans battled Communists dug in oft an unhamed hill the Reds captured from the ROK 3rd division Monday. The ROKs were beaten back after three hours ot bitter fighting, j j Action also increased on the central fj-onti east of Kumsong. Four Chinese platoons, supported by eight's tanks, attacked an advanced U.- N. : position. Four hours later, the Chinese threw in two mor* companies. Defending U. S. troops matched the increase and afteP an all night ’battle, the Reds finally gave up. ! In Other developments: V U. N.. Sabrejets closed out the record-making month of September by running up a total of 60 Communist NIG-15 jet fighters destroyed, seven probably destroyed and 59 damaged. Allied Thunderjet fighter-bomb-ers ridded] a Communist monazite mine dt Sonchon 2j> miles from the Yalu river today. The air force said the mine produced a low-grade ore “possibly containing fissionable materials.” Pilots reported. 19 buildings housing mlhing machinery and* administartivie offices, were destroyed. I Eighth army headquarters annoufiqed the Communists showered 47,312 rounds ofartillery fire on U. Nt- soldiers all across Korea from 6 p.m. Sunday jo 6 p.m. Monday. Divorce Proceeding Is Halted By Judge Action Against Gl Is Halted By Court •A provision of the sailor’s and sodler’d act was implemented by Judge Myles F, Parrish this week to etopfia divorce proceeding where there Was no evidence that the defendant; a serviceman, had been notified just what was going on. The ca?e i* that of Alice J. Sprunger *Vs Norval M; Sprunger, -pending since September, 1951. The original action was for a limited divorce—* form of legal separation, . When the time came for court j action, however, motion was filed for an absolute djecree of divorce, a violation of pi-ocehure in this state. Notice must be given the defendant in the case of the change of action: there whs no satisfactory to the court that any such notice was given, the judge said. As ttie case wore on, Judge Parrish policed that the defendant, Norval iSprunger, was nowhere in sight although being represented by Hupert R. McClenahan, Decatur attorney. Upon questioning, it came out that? Sprunger was in the service and no waiver of any judge(Coßtlnued ojt Pae* Six)

Coal Owners Face > Tough Alternative Southern Operators Must Decide Today WASHINGTON (UP) — Southern soft coal operators today faced the alternative of 'bowing I to John L. LewH’ steep contract demands. or being closed down by a strike at midnight. ? v Joseph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Producers’ As. sociation, scheduled a meeting of his 29-man board of directors to make the decision, ( Some 100,000 / southern diggers were poised to walk out at 12:0d a m. Wednesday — the moment their contract ends —unless the Moody group signs with the United Mine Workers chief. Moody warded it would be a “rugged” meeting and the decision was still up in the air.- He qpid he did rj°t think the operators could “lijve with” the teriqs laid down by Lewis. The miners' boss was insisting on the same terms he (won from the northern {producers in a contract formally ratified Monday. This provided] for a 91.96-day wage boost and a 10-cent-a-ton increase in -welfare fuhd payments for the 290,000 nortft4rft miners. Lewis advised the southern operators to “(acquiesce” to his terms and thfe odds favored their doing so. I j | '• ]• The cold fajets were against the Moody groupj Markets for coal have been declining for several years in the highly competitive industry. Should the southern operators be closed down by a strike while northern mines continued production, th* Dixie «roup Would! be certain to ipse sorely needed customers. > I ’ Moody said ■he would advise Lewis as soon aS the decision was made and the United Mine Workers’ 290-man waige-policy comtnittee planned to nieet to take whatever action was necessary. Presumably it would either ratify an agreement or prtepare for a strike. While the northern soft coal contract was ill wrapped up, the wage stabilisation board still must determine whether it could be put into effect. The $1.90 wage hike—bringing the ipiners’ average daily basic wage; to slß.2s—was far above I Con tinned On Pane Six) ] —H — ■■ ' Muselman Is Named ■ . h | ; F.. ■ Chairman Os Club Good Government Club Is Organized C. H. Muselman, Berne attorney and head of the Economy Printing Co. ■ has . been named chairman of the Adams county gdod government club and Mrs. Gerald Viiard of Decatur, wife of former county Democratic chairman Gerald Vizard, has been mimed vicq-chair-man. The appointments were announced today by Dr. Harry Hebble, Adams county' Democratic chairman, who also stated that Peter Lehman, prominent Atfatns county farmer, >had accepted the chairmanship of th* Morrison for congress club. The good government club will assist the stat* ceptral committee in its fund raising program and also will have; charge in each county of the state of the distribution of political campaign material for the Democratic state candidates. Lehman will serve as district chairman of the Morrison club and will assist in the organization in each county of the fourth congressional district of election da workers for every precinct. Hebble also announced that several Democratic meetings are being planned for October and ra complete list of speakers including the Democratic candidate for governor and the dates will be ready for publication soon. IP 1 .

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Termed Russia U. S. Friends Back In 1945 ,' Continues Attack Ort G. O. P. Nominee In Montana Speech EN ROUTE WITH TRUMAN, UP —president iTniman said today that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’? advice in 1945 that Russia’s long-term Intentions were friendly “did a great deal of harm.” Cont|n*ing hi* attacks on the Republican presidential .candidate, Mr. Truman made reference in a speech- for delivery at Harve, Mont., sto Eisenhower’s statement to a I Congressional committee in 1945 that, “there is no one thing that guides the policy of Russia . more today than to keep friendship with the United States.” This; proved, Mr. .Truman said, that Eisenhower’s “foresight was ■ not nearly as good as his hind- . sight.”’f ' ■ | • The President conceded that “we s can all make mistakes.” ( j j , “But|” he added, “the Republican candidate wns then command- - ing general in Europe and he was j ih close contact with the Russians, r His advice carried much weight and it therefore did a great deal of i harm.” I j Mr. tfruman said that “perhaps I if he had given us better advice in ■ 1945, We wouldn’t have had so • much trouble waking up the country to j the danger of Communist imperialism” in; the following < Mr.. Truman said that, on the other i|and, Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic presidential candidate, “saw what the Communists were up to” when he carried out some “important” government missions in Europe in 1945 and 1946. . h ' “While he worked mightily for international cooperation,” Mr. Truman said, “he was one of the first to warn that the Russians were becoming a threat to peace.” i( ;He said, if successful, Republicans would leave the farmer and the working m*n out in the cold again “like they 1 were back in the twenties and the early thirties.” “If they Can elect a Republican president, and ' a . Republican congress,” he saidl “they will finally have the average citizen at the mercy of special interests. And they believe that they can win this election; by stepping up their campaign 0f misrepresentation, distrust, fear and panic that they started in 1950.” Mr. Truman was to make nine political talks in Montana—at Glasgow, Malta, Chinook, Havre, the Tiber Dam site near Chester, Shelby, Cut Bank, Belton and Columbia Falls. ; ' All were listed as rear-platform talks except the speech at Tiber Dam site. The President opened up on Eisenhot'er and the Republican “Old Guard” in North Dakota Monday ; on the first day of real stumping of his two-week 8,500-mile campaign trip that will take him to California and then back east to New York. He tore into Eisenhower in a “give ’em hell” Style reminiscent of 1948! calling him a gullible military man who “doesn’t know how to settle anything except through war.” ... ' f ' t Then he went on to tell his audience at Berthold, N. D., that the former five-star general’s statements about “liberating” peoples behind the Iron Curtain could get America into “very serious trouble” if Ehsenhower were elected President. “He does not know the first principles necessary to ke*p the country running,” Mr. Truman told a trackside crowd at Minot, N. D. “He’* got a lot to learn about this country and his party, but we can’t educate him aL public expense,” the\ President said. The President mad* a passing (Turn To Pace Five) .: - ■ i r ■ r '■